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| author | Jan Stancek <jstancek@redhat.com> | 2025-01-08 14:56:14 +0100 |
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| committer | Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> | 2025-01-09 12:53:27 -0800 |
| commit | ab88c2b3739a3d839b04f57d9ee0d6b1dc311cc8 (patch) | |
| tree | 31aede8efd695598e24281867cbe1b57a6fc785e /Documentation/userspace-api/netlink | |
| parent | 93e505a300aa4314995f14a2083d0df97a0d80e3 (diff) | |
tools: ynl: move python code to separate sub-directory
Move python code to a separate directory so it can be
packaged as a python module. Updates existing references
in selftests and docs.
Also rename ynl-gen-[c|rst] to ynl_gen_[c|rst], avoid
dashes as these prevent easy imports for entrypoints.
Signed-off-by: Jan Stancek <jstancek@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Donald Hunter <donald.hunter@gmail.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/a4151bad0e6984e7164d395125ce87fd2e048bf1.1736343575.git.jstancek@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/userspace-api/netlink')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/userspace-api/netlink/intro-specs.rst | 8 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/netlink/intro-specs.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/netlink/intro-specs.rst index bada89699455..a4435ae4628d 100644 --- a/Documentation/userspace-api/netlink/intro-specs.rst +++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/netlink/intro-specs.rst @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ developing Netlink related code. The tool is implemented in Python and can use a YAML specification to issue Netlink requests to the kernel. Only Generic Netlink is supported. -The tool is located at ``tools/net/ynl/cli.py``. It accepts +The tool is located at ``tools/net/ynl/pyynl/cli.py``. It accepts a handul of arguments, the most important ones are: - ``--spec`` - point to the spec file @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ YAML specs can be found under ``Documentation/netlink/specs/``. Example use:: - $ ./tools/net/ynl/cli.py --spec Documentation/netlink/specs/ethtool.yaml \ + $ ./tools/net/ynl/pyynl/cli.py --spec Documentation/netlink/specs/ethtool.yaml \ --do rings-get \ --json '{"header":{"dev-index": 18}}' {'header': {'dev-index': 18, 'dev-name': 'eni1np1'}, @@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ the two marker lines like above to a file, add that file to git, and run the regeneration tool. Grep the tree for ``YNL-GEN`` to see other examples. -The code generation itself is performed by ``tools/net/ynl/ynl-gen-c.py`` +The code generation itself is performed by ``tools/net/ynl/pyynl/ynl_gen_c.py`` but it takes a few arguments so calling it directly for each file quickly becomes tedious. @@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ YNL lib ``tools/net/ynl/lib/`` contains an implementation of a C library (based on libmnl) which integrates with code generated by -``tools/net/ynl/ynl-gen-c.py`` to create easy to use netlink wrappers. +``tools/net/ynl/pyynl/ynl_gen_c.py`` to create easy to use netlink wrappers. YNL basics ---------- |